How good is the predictive value of global longitudinal strain?

Athletes often have an abnormal echo when we apply regular standards - is this also true for speckle tracking? Learn here how strain is different in professional sportsmen.

Mitral stenosis often progresses over time, leading to patients coming to you with different complaints - in this clip, Prof. Thomas Binder, MD outlines the progression of this disease over time and how certain comorbidities might develop.

This case is about a young patient receiving chemotherapy. At the beginning of the treatment, his strain starts to decline, but look at it a few years later! Would you have started him on heart-failure therapy from the get-go? And is there actually a way of predicting heart failure in chemo patients?

Although current guidelines do not incorporate it yet, there is data about the value of LV strain for the timing of aortic valve surgery - watch it here!